BABEL - re-formatted 5 album set

by Roger Doyle

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A re-formatting of BABEL, originally released as a 5-CD set in 1999, and on 5 bandcamp pages. Now all on the one page.

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1.	Temple Music - Pagoda Charm/Mansard 15:05	info	buy track
2.	Temple Music - Yunnus 10:29	info	buy track
3.	Temple Music - Earth To Earth 09:43	info	buy track
4.	Temple Music - Cantilena 11:13	info	buy track
5.	Temple Music - Kalu Rehearsals 08:38	info	buy track
6.	Temple Music - Mercedes Spring 05:44	info	buy track
7.	Temple Music - The Iron Language Alphabet 15:14	info	buy track
8.	Entry Level 1 04:56	info	buy track
9.	Mr. Brady's Room 10:31	info	buy track
10.	Squat 10:08	info	buy track
11.	The Room Of Rhetoric 19:18	info	buy track
12.	Spirit Levels I-IV 13:53	info	buy track
13.	The Stairwell 18:45	info	buy track
14.	Entry Level II 04:29	info	buy track
15.	Dark Scenery Court Games 16:52	info	buy track
16.	The Dressing Room 11:19	info	buy track
17.	Vertical Fissures In Stone 05:12	info	buy track
18.	Beautiful Day 00:36	info	buy track
19.	Mall Fountain 12:22	info	buy track
20.	Johnny's Body At 002 16:13	info	buy track
21.	Mr. Foley's Final Moments 09:31	info	buy track
22.	KBBL - The Morning Show (pt.1) 14:50	info	buy track
23.	KBBL - The Morning Show (pt.2) 14:07	info	buy track
24.	KBBL - Surface Du Monde 23:45	info	buy track
25.	Trapeze In Full-Moon Nights 16:11	info	buy track
26.	KBBL - The Entertainment And Leisure Pursuits Show (pt.1) 21:23	info	buy track
27.	KBBL - The Entertainment And Leisure Pursuits Show (pt.2) 23:14	info	buy track
28.	KBBL - The Nightshow (pt.1) 13:30	info	buy track
29.	KBBL - The Nightshow (pt.2) 19:26	info	buy track
30.	In Sumerian Sunshine (bonus track) 06:52	info	buy track

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Babel is a large-scale musical structure making use of many technologies and music languages, with each piece of music being thought of as a 'room' or place within an enormous tower city.
Each track in the main section corresponds to a virtual architecture. The pieces are divided into two kinds: aural representations of actual spaces (e.g.The Dressing Room, The Stairwell, Mr. Brady's Room), and internalised dream spaces (e.g. The Room Of Rhetoric, Mall Fountain, the Spirit Levels, the Mansard childhood memory room).
Listeners can navigate their way differently through this virtual building at each hearing if they so wish.

As a Babel supplement is KBBL - the Tower's fictitious radio station. Each of its 4 'shows' has its own style and atmosphere. Collaborating with DJs, actors, writers and singers, KBBL is made to sound like a real radio station with ads, traffic reports, phone-ins etc.
Altogether BABEL contains 103 individual pieces of music, with 48 collaborators.

For the BABEL 25th anniversary special edition re-release...
double LP gatefold vinyl with full download code, please visit:
rogerdoyle1.bandcamp.com/album/babel-25th-anniversary-special-edition

'An extraordinary achievement by award-winning Irish electronic composer Roger Doyle, in which he brings to life an imaginary world in the Tower of Babel, complete with radio stations, ghostly singers and violinists in stairwells, and all the life of a great city. Profound, funny and tenderly sad, this is music for a new world' (Circa Art Magazine).

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released January 16, 2023

As an example of the many connections and links within Babel, two routes can be taken. The first is an architectural one: the saxophonist in the offstage Dressing Room is rehearsing for her solo in the concert-hall (heard in Pagoda Charm) as is Mr. Brady whose room is somewhere off The Stairwell, where the sounds of piano lessons and apartment life can be heard. The Squat is another apartment off The Stairwell. KBBL can be overheard in The Stairwell,,the Squat, Mr. Brady's Room, The Room Of Rhetoric and in the Kalu temple rehearsal space. There are other more hidden connections waiting to be discovered (e.g the Movie Theme is buried in a Dark Scenery and an Entry Level).
The second connections route is a musical one, at a molecular level. The Iron Language Alphabet (one of the six Temple Musics from six unspecified religions) is a sound alphabet containing tiny fragments of sound representing letters or characters of an alien alphabet. At the start of the piece, after an heraldic trumpet solo, letters are introduced one by one slowly and then sped up. This sound alphabet can be heard in other pieces like The Room Of Rhetoric, Pagoda Charm, Entry Level 1, Johnny's Body At 002 and in KBBL in Navigatio.
Other molecular scatterings can ne heard in Cantilena where two songs sung by Elena Lopez in KBBL are exploded and re-arranged to form new entities. And in the Lesiure Pursuits Show from KBBL, three pieces from its Morning Show are cannibalised in Senanbru Vendanswi.
The Entry Levels are like overtures, openings or peepholes and contain material from all parts of the Tower.

BABEL celebrates language (a slight variation on the Biblical morality tale) and musical expression in all its variety.

Keyboards, programming and all music composed, recorded and produced by Roger Doyle ℗ and © PRS/MCPS
Download includes the essay BABEL - a Listener's Guide.

' Tower Of Babel - Delusional Architecture', was performed in an entire wing of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1992 by the dance theatre company ICONTACT. See panel above and video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M3tPVTDvB8&list=UUNonXNHKdCwTonw_bA5xvkw

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Roger Doyle Ireland

Roger Doyle – composer, keyboardist and producer of own music, in concert and in the studio. Likes to work on large projects and to collaborate with others. Works with a multiplicity of musical languages and evolving technologies.

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